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Name: CHERUSKIA launched as GLEN CALADH TOWER
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 17/05/1890
Completed: 08/1890
Builder: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 18
Dimensions: 3254grt, 2093nrt, 344.5 x 41.3 x 18.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (25.5, 41 & 67 x 42ins), 291nhp
Engines by: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
08/1890 Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg
1916 Government of Portugal - Transportes Maritimos do Estado, Lisbon
1916 Renamed LEIXOES
12/09/1918 Sank
Comments: 17/05/1890: Launched as GLEN CALADH TOWER for F Stumore & Co, London
08/1914: Laid up at Lisbon
23/02/1916: Seized by the Government of Portugal
12/09/1918: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U155 east of Newfoundland
On a voyage from Hull to Boston Massachusetts